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A balloon seller says she refuses to serve customers who intend to release them due to the environmental impact and danger to wildlife.

Naomi Spittles, 32, from Lincoln, has been trading for eight years and was recently asked to provide 200 balloons for a memorial, but turned the order down.

She has called for balloon releases to be banned nationally: "What goes up, must come down, and they don't go to heaven."

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Why do I suddenly have burning down the house in my head?